Re: Maximum Number of USB Mass Storage Devices

2010-02-20 Thread David King
Thanks David. My question was specific to FreeBSD's limitations rather than USB limitiations. You're not going to get hundreds of them on a single bus, whether it's FreeBSD's limitation or USB's. On 19/02/2010, David King dk...@ketralnis.com wrote: I have a requirement to connect a

[SOLVED]Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-20 Thread Programmer In Training
Sorry this hasn't been made clear, seems that the list is dropping some of my emails, but this issue has been solved. I'll post the answer here and hopefully the list will pick it up this time (or at least deliver it to me so I know it's been delivered): On 02/19/10 03:05, Matthew Seaman wrote:

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-20 Thread krad
On 18 February 2010 11:24, Christian Baer christian.b...@uni-dortmund.dewrote: krad schrieb: On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at least 2 Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? Regards, Chris

strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hello List, I've got a very strange disk activity: - % iostat -xw60 da0 extended device statistics device r/s w/skr/skw/s wait svc_t b da0 43.2 204.4 971.9 10917.20 30.7 30 extended device statistics device

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800 (PST), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wearab...@yahoo.ca wrote: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: NetBSD needs a *very* minimal set of POSIX tools to build, e.g. you can get away with an sh(1) utility and a pretty basic make(1) tool. They have

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: Hello List, I've got a very strange disk activity: - % iostat -xw60 da0 extended device statistics device r/s w/skr/skw/s wait svc_t b da0 43.2 204.4 971.9 10917.20 30.7 30

IWN/IWNFW 4965

2010-02-20 Thread Backup
I'm on a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE i396 system. And i am experiencing a lot of packet loss and instability with this driver. I've noticed that the transfers rate keeps jump around from 1Mbps to its respective level. My connection to the AP is stable, but the data-flow isn't. Ive been trying to days

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:26:15 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: Hello List, I've got a very strange disk activity: - % iostat -xw60 da0 extended device statistics device r/s w/skr/skw/s wait svc_t

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:26:15 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: Hello List, I've got a very strange disk activity: - % iostat -xw60 da0 extended device

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:56:24 +0300 Boris Samorodov wrote: Are there other possibilities meanwhile? Thanks to Chuck Swiger: % top -m io -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:48:45 -0600 Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 20), Boris Samorodov said: Are there other possibilities meanwhile? ktrace -d -i -p 0 ; sleep 10 ; ktrace -C , then run kdump -m64 and search for large numbers of writes in the output. -d -i -p0 selects all

Re: strange disk activity

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Boris Samorodov said: On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:56:24 +0300 Boris Samorodov wrote: Are there other possibilities meanwhile? Thanks to Chuck Swiger: % top -m io I used to use this, but zfs I/O stats aren't reported and I have no ufs filesystems anymore, so I

unabe to install linux compatibility on freebsd 8.0-R

2010-02-20 Thread John
Hello list, I'm following the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html I tried to kldload the module: # kldload linux kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/linux.ko: Exec format error # kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 22 0x8010

No sounds with OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 slide shows...

2010-02-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have compiled OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 using the port on FreeBSD i386 8.0-RELEASE, and there is no sound with slide shows. The sound works fine with vlc and with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 . What could be missing? I tested with another box running FreeBSD amd64 8.0-STABLE and I have the

Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0)

2010-02-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Lucas Wang wrote: I tried to install Freebsd 8.0 on one of our lab machines, which is SunFire v20z. After successfully installing it from CD, I followed the following steps trying to update the kernel and world: cvsup make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot mergemaster -p

Re: unabe to install linux compatibility on freebsd 8.0-R

2010-02-20 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Sunday 21 February 2010 00:54:54 John wrote: Hello list, I'm following the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html I tried to kldload the module: # kldload linux kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/linux.ko: Exec format error # kldstat Id Refs

Problems With K3b

2010-02-20 Thread Programmer In Training
I'm trying to install k3b from ports so I might use my DVD super multi format drive (an HP 1040i; I've already added the necessary line to /boot/default/loader.conf for enabling dma) with either the gui or cli but during the install of libthai (which is a dependency of kimproxy which is a

Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Aiza
1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? So if the running file system is more than 50% full there will not be enough free space available to hold the duplicate image? Can

Re: Making installworld got stuck on SunFire v20z (Freebsd 8.0)

2010-02-20 Thread Lucas Wang
Thanks for your reply. I'll give it a try. Lucas On Feb 20, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Lucas Wang wrote: I tried to install Freebsd 8.0 on one of our lab machines, which is SunFire v20z. After successfully installing it from CD, I followed the following steps trying to update the

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a copy. Snapshots only copy blocks as they are modified on the parent

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Alexandr Sushko
3. Can dump be told to only dump a particular directory tree? IE /var/log or /usr/port? No. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Aiza
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a copy. Snapshots only copy blocks as they are

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a